By contrast, the Pirate Party, beloved of those who like a bit of alternative spice in their politics, failed to surmount the 5% hurdle.
Worse still, it concluded, if Europe failed to surmount its economic crisis the prize would be a "risible memory, or worse, an epitaph for what Europe could have been, should have been".
Once again — as during the 2008 financial crisis and the more recent halt in European air traffic due to volcanic ash — European leaders have failed to surmount national interests and cobble together a coherent policy quickly enough to address a problem.
It is a truism that communities that do not pull together fail to surmount their challenges.
Reference centers such as the National Prion Disease Pathology Surveillance Center, while providing diagnostic expertise, fail to surmount the biosafety obstacles (real and perceived) that prevent pathologists from enthusiastically performing autopsies on those who died of potential infectious diseases, including prion diseases.
It is a crisis that, at minimum, reflects the fact that the city's foster care system too often fails to adequately address and surmount the myriad problems afflicting children removed from harmful homes.
Former Merck & Co. CEO Roy Vagelos told a congressional committee that the idea that the $600 million NIH effort could surmount drug development problems that industry has failed to solve was like believing "in fairies".
One, a former enlisted Marine who was shivering in the 40-degree breeze, tried repeatedly to surmount the first bar, but failed.
This fall, the Democrats are looking far more than usual to organized labor's ground troops and money to save embattled Democratic candidates, but labor's vaunted political clout may fail to deliver — partly because so many union members and retirees, like Mr. Turosky, are angry about the economy, and partly because unions are finding it hard to surmount a deluge of Republican campaign ads.
